Gallicize

American  

[gal-uh-sahyz] / ˈgæl əˌsaɪz /

especially British, gallicise

verb (used with or without object)

Gallicized, Gallicizing

1. (sometimes lowercase) to make or become French in language, character, etc.

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Gallicize British  

/ ˈɡælɪˌsaɪz /

verb

1. to make or become French in attitude, language, etc

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Other Word Forms

• Gallicization
  noun
• Gallicizer
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of Gallicize

1765–75; < Latin Gallic ( us ) Gallic + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Gallicize Gallicized Gallicizing

Gallicize it as you wish, make it smart and fashionable as you can.

From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

As Faye Landes, an analyst at Cowen & Company, a financial services company, told The New York Times last week, Target needs to revive the sheen that once earned it the affectionately Gallicized sobriquet “Tar-Jay.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2014

The former French Vogue editor, who was recently appointed global fashion director for Harper's Bazaar, tried vainly to explain her métier, which boiled down, in her charmingly Gallicized phrasing, to "making happen a dream."

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2012

Tchaikovsky, like Dargomijsky and others less well known, although using popular airs, did not hesitate to present them in a Gallicized or Italianized form in the manner of Glinka.

From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky

Being somewhat shaken, however, in his first belief of a Portuguese discovery, he was led to adopt a Provençal theory to explain certain words which on these old Gallicized charts, were neither Portuguese nor French.

From The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by George Collingridge

I do not know that the English have become in any way Gallicized, but the French have been very materially Anglicized.

From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

Some of the Reform Clubs sought to moderate the Gallicizing zeal of the extreme wing.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

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